Jeremiah 9:21

Bible in Basic English 1965

For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.

Isaiah 40:30

Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

Jeremiah 15:7

And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

Jeremiah 18:21

For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

Jeremiah 44:7

So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

Jeremiah 50:30

For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:11

For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.

Jeremiah 6:21

For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.

Jeremiah 7:33

And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

Joel 2:9

They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

Amos 5:2

The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.

Amos 6:9

Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.

Zephaniah 1:17

And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.